Protecting Our Natural Heritage
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Our Midwest wild and natural areas are, too often, threatened by logging, mining, sprawl and other harmful activities. ELPC works with grassroots groups throughout the Midwest to protect special places that are our environmental heritage and to ensure that fragile ecosystems and habitat are preserved. Our advocacy work ranges from fighting to preserve the Driftless Area, one of the top biodiversity “hotspots” in the Midwest, to preventing a dam on Sugar Creek proposed by the City of Marion that would destroy more than six miles of one of the last free-flowing streams in Illinois. Blocking extensive timber harvesting efforts in Wisconsin, collaborating to protect and enhance water quality in the Mississippi River and its watershed, and working to maintain the health of the largest surface freshwater system on earth – the Great Lakes – are just a few of ELPC’s other active projects.
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